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VANCOUVER -- Strong public support for Vancouver's separated bicycle lanes on Dunsmuir and Hornby streets shows the temporary lanes should now be made permanent.

That's the conclusion of a city staff report going to council next week that recommends the city keep the structures in place.

Using both in-ground and hose-type counters, the city says there's been a dramatic increase in traffic on the two lanes as cyclists readily accepted the idea of separated lanes in the downtown core.

The bike lane over the Dunsmuir Viaduct showed a 19 per cent increase in bike traffic year-over-year since being installed in April, 2010. A total of 411,000 trips were recorded between April, 2011 and March, 2012.

But the lion's share of bike trips are still being made over the Burrard Bridge, which over the same period recorded just over one million trips. Overall, bike traffic increased eight per cent for both Dunsmuir Viaduct and Burrard lanes combined.

Bike traffic on Hornby Street's separated lane, which was only opened in January, 2011, is much less. In the three months between January and March, 2012, 59,000 trips were recorded on Hornby, up four per cent from the same period last year.

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Bicycle lanes on Dunsmuir and Hornby streets should be permanent: report

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